This is "Kampong Senaling" taken in 2006. Has not changed since the 50s - gateway to Sri Menanti
'Kampong Senaling is approximately 5 kilometres from Kuala Pilah - on the Tampin trunk road'
" MAY PEACE BE UPON YOU "

26 November 2012

Thoughts 27NOV2012


As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic", cross that person off your invitation list - John Eliot

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any - Alice Walker

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted wrongly the first time as you are about to act now - Viktor Frankl

25 November 2012

Thoughts 26NOV2012


Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars - Les Brown

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mould without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve - Bruce Lee

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular - Anthony Robbins

22 November 2012

Thoughts 23NOV2012


You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you - Sri Ram

You can only become truly accomplished as something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you - Maya Angelou

21 November 2012

Thoughts 22NOV2012


You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along". You must do the thing you think you cannot do - Eleanor Roosevelt

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within - Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

20 November 2012

Thoughts 21NOV2012


The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat - Napoleon Hill

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend - Bruce Lee

19 November 2012

Thoughts 20NOV2012


The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter - Unknown

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one - Mark Twain

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory - George S Patton

18 November 2012

Thoughts 19NOV2012


Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes : find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human - Anthony Robbins

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure - Nelson Mandela

11 November 2012

Thoughts 12NOV2012


It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference - Zig Ziglar

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with - Mark Twain

Change is not pleasant, but change is constant. Only when we change and grow, we'll see a world we never know - From Wisdom of The Orange Woodpecker

08 November 2012

Thoughts 09NOV2012


It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish - Katherine Hepburn

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach - Anthony Robbins

Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right - Walt Disney

07 November 2012

Thoughts 08NOV2012


Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don't spend it by dwelling on unhappy things - Celestine Chua

When you don't get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can't hold on to it forever - Peaceful Warrior

The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today - Anonymous

06 November 2012

Thoughts 07NOV2012


Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it - Caroline Myss

There came a time when the risk to remain in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom - Anais Nin

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself - Anna Quindlen

05 November 2012

Thoughts 06NOV2012


Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand - Mark Twain

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own - Bruce Lee

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day - Indian Proverb

04 November 2012

Thoughts 05NOV2012


Nothing is impossible to a willing heart - John Heywood

Surround yourself with people who are going to motivate and inspire you - Charles M Marcus

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all which has the potential to turn a life around - Leo Buscaglia

Percussion Band (1964) - Kuala Pilah Padang

Percussion Band (1964) - Kuala Pilah Padang

Percussion Band (1965) - Kuala Pilah Padang

Percussion Band (1965) - Kuala Pilah Padang

Standard 4 (1966) - Tunku Munawir School, Kuala Pilah

Standard 4 (1966) - Tunku Munawir School, Kuala Pilah

Standard 5 (1967) - Tunku Munawir School, Kuala Pilah

Standard 5 (1967) - Tunku Munawir School, Kuala Pilah

Form 3 (1971) - Ampang Road Boys School, Kuala Lumpur

Form 3 (1971) - Ampang Road Boys School, Kuala Lumpur

THE WISE WAY - Parodoxical Commandments

  • People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred; Forgive them anyway
  • If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
  • If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway.
  • If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
  • What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight; Build anyway.
  • If you find serenity and happiness, others may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
  • The good you do today, people may often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
  • Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you got anyway.
  • You see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and GOD; It was never between you and them anyway.
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  • Written by Kent M Keith when he was 19, first published by the Harvard Student Agencies in 1968.